October 08, 2002 :: Tuesday
04:32 AM
Books
REVIEW | The Last Time We Met by Anita Shreve
Sometimes her books are a bit slow to get started so I always keep reading but this one just doesn't seem to be going anywhere and it's got an annoying thing of putting all dialogue in italics, not quotes. Seems to be a pointless quirk and it's not doing anything much for the story so far.
Sometimes her books are a bit slow to get started so I always keep reading but this one just doesn't seem to be going anywhere and it's got an annoying thing of putting all dialogue in italics, not quotes. Seems to be a pointless quirk and it's not doing anything much for the story so far.
All her other books have been great, especially The Weight of Water, a brilliant dual story about a disentegrating marriage in the present and a multiple murder on an isolated New England island a hundred years before.
Shreve's books are similar to Sue Miller's but Shreve tends to put more of a dreamlike air in her books, people wandering thru a fog and then terrible things happen.
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allen mann [January 4, 2004 11:26 PM] I did not understand the ending.